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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 8766941" data-attributes="member: 57383">Okay, let's get on with this!Might as well focus on one at a time, and we appear to be discussing the Giant Pterosaur.For comparison, the only official 5E stats for Pterosaurs I could easily come across was the Monster Manual Pteranodon. There's also a slightly more powerful <a href="https://www.5esrd.com/database/creature/dinosaur-pteranodon" target="_blank">Pteranodon</a> and a <a href="https://www.5esrd.com/database/creature/dinosaur-pterodactyl" target="_blank">Pterodactyl</a>) in Necromancer Games' Tome of Horrors, together with an <a href="https://www.5esrd.com/database/creature/dinosaur-archaeopteryx" target="_blank">Archaeopteryx</a> if we wanted an actual flying dinosaur for comparison.First off is Size type, alignment. The first and last is already settled, so we just need Size. I'd argue for Large size, as follows:A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteranodon" target="_blank">Pteranodon</a> is Medium size and has a wingspan up to 20 feet, or four times its Space, and might have weighed about 100 pounds or so.The largest species of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatlus" target="_blank">Quetzalcoatlus</a>, Q. northropi probably has a wingspan of around 35 feet or so. Weight is hard to guess but might have been up to 500 pounds. That weight range is in the Large category: it's as heavy as a pony or small bear. If its Space is around a quarter of its wingspan it'd occupy a 10 ft. Space, which also matches Large size.If we give it a decent STR and hand-wave the actual aerodynamics of it as per usual D&D flying mounts, that's big enough to carry a Medium creature.So Large monstrosity (shapechanger), neutral evil?</blockquote>

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